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Israeli army renews airstrikes, artillery shelling in southern Lebanon despite US deal
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Smoke rises after Israeli forces carried out air and artillery attacks on towns in Nabatieh, southern Lebanon, despite a ceasefire, on September 21, 2026. [Ramiz Dallah – Anadolu Agency]
The Israeli army launched renewed airstrikes and artillery shelling in several towns in southern Lebanon on Sunday, in the latest violations of a US-sponsored framework deal signed in June.
Israeli warplanes bombed the town of Kfar Tebnit in the Nabatieh district, Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) reported.
In the Tyre district, Israeli warplanes struck the town of Mansouri, while artillery shelling hit Majdal Zoun, the agency said.
Overnight, the area between the towns of Mayfadoun and Zawtar al-Sharqiyah was subjected to heavy and concentrated Israeli artillery shelling.
READ: Lebanon looks to EU support for state control of weapons, end to Israeli occupation
The attacks came amid Israel’s ongoing offensive against Lebanon, which began on March 2 and has killed 4,386 people and wounded 12,413 others, according to the latest figures released by Lebanon’s Health Ministry.
On June 26, Beirut and Tel Aviv signed the US-brokered framework arrangement in Washington that provides for a gradual Israeli withdrawal from Lebanese territory and the deployment of the Lebanese army in areas vacated by Israeli forces.
The Israeli army continues its attacks despite the deal and maintains its occupation of parts of Lebanon, including areas held for decades and others seized during recent wars and military operations.
READ: EU to launch training and support mission for Lebanese army: foreign policy chief
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Donald Trump sings and dances, says that it’s fun to kill everyone … unless he gets distracted or falls asleep.
Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza’s hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel. New Labour UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham continues Labour party policy of active support and complicity in Israel’s genocide.
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham admits to blatently lying and engaging in deception to become leader of the UK Labour Party and Prime Minister.
Ed Miliband says that he and the Labour Party are full of shit criminalising people holding signs as terrorists despite anything he says.

Andy Burnham stands with Israel
11 October 2026
Israeli occupiers give 47 Palestinian families 24 hours to leave West Bank homes
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NABLUS, WEST BANK, PALESTINE – OCTOBER 1: Israeli forces raid Joseph’s Tomb site in Nablus, West Bank, Palestine on October 1, 2026. The site is believed by some to be the burial place of the Prophet Joseph. ( Nedal Eshtayah – Anadolu Agency )
Israeli occupiers on Saturday gave 47 Palestinian families in the northern occupied West Bank until Sunday evening to leave their homes after a 27-day blockade, Anadolu reports.
Hassan Mleihat, head of the Palestinian rights group Al-Baydar, told Anadolu that the families face an uncertain future after weeks of road closures isolating the Ras al-Ahmar community southeast of Tubas.
He said the ultimatum heightened fears for residents about their ability to remain on their land and protect their livelihoods.
Mleihat called for urgent intervention by rights groups, humanitarian organizations, and international bodies to protect residents and their property, and end the blockade.
READ: Israeli fire wounds Anadolu photojournalist in occupied West Bank
The Israeli army in September closed the last remaining route connecting Ras al-Ahmar with surrounding areas after other dirt roads leading to the community had already been blocked.
Resident Thaer Bisharat told Anadolu that restrictions had intensified during the last three years, reaching a critical point when Israeli forces dug a trench across the community’s last remaining access route.
He said the measure effectively left the community surrounded by trenches, walls, and military zones.
Israeli occupiers have carried out more than 14,742 attacks in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, since October 2023, killing 66 Palestinians, according to the Palestinian Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission.
READ: Israeli army arrests 16 Palestinians including Ibrahimi Mosque director in occupied West Bank
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Donald Trump sings and dances, says that it’s fun to kill everyone … unless he gets distracted or falls asleep.
Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza’s hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel. New Labour UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham continues Labour party policy of active support and complicity in Israel’s genocide.
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham admits to blatently lying and engaging in deception to become leader of the UK Labour Party and Prime Minister.
Ed Miliband says that he and the Labour Party are full of shit criminalising people holding signs as terrorists despite anything he says.

Andy Burnham stands with Israel
11 October 2026
An estimated quarter of a million join London march marking three years of Gaza genocide
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People attend a pro-Palestine protest demanding to halt arms sales and impose sanctions to Israel, in London, United Kingdom on October 10, 2026.
The Palestinian Forum in Britain (PFB) estimates that more than a quarter of a million people took part in a major demonstration in central London on Saturday 10 October, marking the third anniversary of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. Protesters called on Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s Government to impose a complete and immediate arms embargo on Israel.
The demonstration was organised by the Palestine Coalition, comprising the Palestinian Forum in Britain, Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), Muslim Association of Britain (MAB), Stop the War Coalition, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) and Friends of Al-Aqsa.
The march set off from Victoria Embankment and passed through central London before concluding with a rally and sit-in on Whitehall, near Downing Street. Participants carried Palestinian flags and placards demanding an end to British arms supplies to Israel and accountability for its crimes.
Chants of “Free Palestine”, “Stop Arming Israel”, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” and “Stop the genocide” rang out along the route. Students, healthcare workers, trade unionists, academics and artists joined the demonstration.
Participants demanded a full ban on exports of weapons and military aircraft components to Israel, arguing that partial restrictions are insufficient while British-made components continue to reach the battlefield. They also called on the Government to recognise formally that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and to turn expressions of sympathy into practical action.
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Speakers included former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn MP, John McDonnell MP and Zarah Sultana MP, alongside actor Khalid Abdalla and Dr Omar Abdel-Mannan, representing Health Workers for Palestine. UNISON general secretary Andrea Egan, PSC’s incoming director Aimee Shalan and Palestinian journalist Hala Hanina also addressed the rally, together with representatives of the organising groups.
PFB Chairman Adnan Hmidan participated in the demonstration and spoke at the protest.
Speakers stressed that the continued mobilisation after three years demonstrated the breadth of solidarity with Palestine and sustained public pressure on the Government to change its policies towards Israel. Participants expressed optimism and determination, viewing the turnout as a clear message that the campaign would continue until its demands were met.
The London demonstration coincided with the Global Alliance for Palestine’s call for an international day of solidarity. Actions were called in hundreds of cities across more than 60 countries, with over 200 organisations participating in the wider mobilisation.
PFB reiterated the coalition’s demands for an end to the arms trade with Israel, the suspension of military and intelligence support that facilitates violations of international law, unrestricted humanitarian access to Gaza, and action to stop British institutions and businesses supporting occupation and settlement activity.
The protest continued the series of national marches organised by the Palestine Coalition since October 2023. PFB thanks everyone who took part and urges supporters to maintain pressure through campaigning and engagement with their elected representatives. The campaign for Palestinian freedom and justice must continue.
READ: UK police impose strict conditions on pro-Palestine student march in London
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Donald Trump sings and dances, says that it’s fun to kill everyone … unless he gets distracted or falls asleep.
Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza’s hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel. New Labour UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham continues Labour party policy of active support and complicity in Israel’s genocide.
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham admits to blatently lying and engaging in deception to become leader of the UK Labour Party and Prime Minister.
Ed Miliband says that he and the Labour Party are full of shit criminalising people holding signs as terrorists despite anything he says.

Andy Burnham stands with Israel
11 October 2026
Rights group files ICC complaint against Israeli medical officials over torture of Palestinian detainees
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A view of Sde Teiman prison in the Negev desert near the Gaza Strip, in Negev, Israel on January 10, 2025. [ Mostafa Alkharouf – Anadolu Agency]
The Hind Rajab Foundation filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Israeli medical officials over torture and mistreatment of Palestinian detainees, Israeli media reported Saturday, Anadolu reports.
The complaint targets the Israeli Medical Association, Health Ministry officials and medical personnel over abuses at the Sde Teiman military detention facility in southern Israel.
According to the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, the Brussels-based rights group submitted the complaint to the ICC prosecutor under Article 15 of the Rome Statute.
The foundation said that Israeli medical personnel and officials were involved in practices amounting to war crimes and crimes against humanity.
– Allegations of systematic mistreatment
Since October 2023, the Sde Teiman military base in Israel’s southern Negev desert has been used to hold thousands of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, most of them civilians, including men, women, children, older people, journalists and health and humanitarian workers.
The foundation said that detainees were classified as “unlawful combatants,” a designation it described as a means of denying them basic legal protections and holding them without charge or trial.
The complaint said Israel’s Health Ministry established a medical facility at Sde Teiman shortly after Oct. 7, 2023.
According to the foundation, medical personnel were required to sign documents placing them under military police authority rather than the army’s Medical Corps.
The complaint seeks investigations into officials from Israel’s health and defense ministries, medical personnel, hospital administrators and the Israeli Medical Association.
Those named include former health ministers Moshe Arbel and Uriel Buso, association chairman Zion Hagay, director general Leah Wapner and ethics board chairman Yosef Walfisch.
– Detainees restrained during medical treatment
The foundation said a Health Ministry directive issued on Dec. 19, 2023, required medical personnel to treat detainees while they were handcuffed and blindfolded.
According to the complaint, the directive also permitted forced medical treatment without adequate safeguards.
Medical staff were allegedly instructed not to disclose their names and to sign medical records using only their professional titles.
The foundation argued that these practices obscured individual responsibility and hindered documentation of injuries.
READ: 60 countries participate in historic Global Day of Action for Palestine
– Amputations, surgeries without adequate pain relief
The foundation cited accounts from Israeli medical workers and former Palestinian detainees describing abuses at Sde Teiman.
According to the complaint, a doctor wrote to Israeli authorities in April 2024 that two detainees had undergone leg amputations within one week because of injuries caused by shackling.
The doctor reportedly described shackling as routine at the facility.
The foundation also cited medical workers who told the Associated Press they had witnessed surgeries performed without adequate pain relief.
One account described an elderly detainee screaming and shaking during leg surgery.
Other workers reported detainees being blindfolded, forced to wear diapers and restrained by all four limbs to hospital beds.
The foundation said at least 29 detainees had died at Sde Teiman by November 2025 because of physical violence, medical neglect or both.
– Medical association accused of complicity
The complaint accused the Israeli Medical Association of helping legitimize torture and mistreatment at the facility.
The foundation said the association responded to allegations of medical complicity with general reminders about professional ethics rather than sufficient investigative action.
It also said findings from an internal Health Ministry ethical assessment following a visit to Sde Teiman were not publicly released.
“Instead of investigating the allegations, leaders of the association publicly defended the medical care provided at Sde Teiman,” the foundation said.
Established in February 2024 and based in Brussels, the Hind Rajab Foundation has pursued legal cases in several countries against Israeli officials and military personnel over alleged violations in Gaza.
Since October 2023, Israel’s war in Gaza has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians and injured over 175,000 others, according to Palestinian figures.
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Donald Trump sings and dances, says that it’s fun to kill everyone … unless he gets distracted or falls asleep.
Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza’s hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel. New Labour UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham continues Labour party policy of active support and complicity in Israel’s genocide.
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham admits to blatently lying and engaging in deception to become leader of the UK Labour Party and Prime Minister.
Ed Miliband says that he and the Labour Party are full of shit criminalising people holding signs as terrorists despite anything he says.

Andy Burnham stands with Israel
11 October 2026
60 countries participate in historic Global Day of Action for Palestine
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Global Day of Action for Palestine, on Saturday 10 October 2026
The Global Day of Action for Palestine called for today, 10^th October, has received massive support worldwide. Convened by the Global Alliance for Palestine with the support of the Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) and SANED, this historic international mobilisation unites over 200 organisations through 325 mapped events across 60 countries and six continents. From London to capitals and cities worldwide, people of conscience are rising together to declare that the genocide and suffering of the Palestinian people will never be swept aside, and Israel’s illegal occupation will never be normalised.
A press statement from the organisers said the scale of today’s mobilisation demonstrates that solidarity with Palestine has blossomed into a thriving, borderless movement, with communities everywhere finding their voice:
- Europe (176 actions across 24 countries): Anchored by massive turnouts, including 64 actions in Italy and 38 in Spain, alongside major demonstrations at Rome’s Colosseum, Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate, and Brussels’ Israeli Embassy.
- Oceania (45 actions): Kicking off from the earliest hours in Australia and New Zealand, featuring the powerful Hīkoi for Palestine marching from the New Zealand Parliament to Civic Square in
- Latin America & the Caribbean (36 actions across 8 countries): Highlighted by major marches in Santiago, Chile (organised by FECh, Coordinadora Feminista 8M, and CIP), alongside active mobilisations spanning Mexico City, Colombia, Peru, and Uruguay.
- Africa (32 actions across 10 countries): Centred around a Global Mass March in Cape Town, moving from Muir Street Masjid in historic District Six to the Western Cape Provincial Parliament.
- North America & Asia: Featuring a demonstration outside the Israeli Consulate in Los Angeles organised by CODEPINK, a gathering outside the Israeli Embassy in Bangkok, and extensive nationwide mobilisations across Malaysia — including a mass rally and memorandum handover at the US Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, strategic forums, and community advocacy training by MyCARE and PACE.
Diversity of Action
Beyond the traditional marches and demonstrations, this international mobilisation breathes through a remarkable mosaic of cultural, educational, and creative community defiance, proving that resistance takes many forms across the globe. Communities are channeling their solidarity with Palestine into powerful artistic and educational expressions: in Alessandria and Cape Town, solemn memorial processions carry staggering 25-metre and 20-metre shrouds bearing the names of Palestinian children killed by Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
This creative resistance spans continents through events such as ‘Birdwatching for Palestine’ hosted by Colectivo Cardenales and ComPalestina Yucatán in Mexico, the staging of the powerful theatre performance ‘Mashahidi wa Gaza (The Martyrs of Gaza)’ by Friends of Palestine Tanzania in Dar es Salaam, a funeral-themed public commemoration and reading of names at Place Kléber in Strasbourg, a two-day Palestine Solidarity Festival at the Lycabettus Theatre in Athens, and a children’s kite-flying event organised alongside the international conference ‘Ecocide: The Silent War Crime’ in Tehran.
Pushing for tangible accountability
Brought together by established anti-war coalitions, trade unions, student federations, and grassroots networks, participants worldwide stand shoulder-to-shoulder under uncompromising and fierce demands directed squarely at ending Israeli state impunity:
Governments can no longer hide behind empty statements of concern or complicit silence. Tangible measures must be enforced immediately to hold Israel accountable, impose military embargoes, halt arms supplies, and prosecute those responsible for war crimes and state atrocities.
Today’s mobilisation is not a passing wave, but a defining turning point in a sustained international struggle. Palestine is not alone, and this global movement will not falter until Israeli impunity is shattered and true justice, freedom, and liberation for the Palestinian people are achieved.
READ: Over 200 organisations across more than 60 countries unite in Global Mobilisation for Palestine on 10 October
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Donald Trump sings and dances, says that it’s fun to kill everyone … unless he gets distracted or falls asleep.
Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza’s hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel. New Labour UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham continues Labour party policy of active support and complicity in Israel’s genocide.
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham admits to blatently lying and engaging in deception to become leader of the UK Labour Party and Prime Minister.
Ed Miliband says that he and the Labour Party are full of shit criminalising people holding signs as terrorists despite anything he says.

Andy Burnham stands with Israel
11 October 2026